Seed SPACE is a lab for site-specific installation, sculpture, and performance-based art in Nashville. We support our program in three specific ways. We bring in nationally recognized art critics to write our exhibition essays.  We host regularly scheduled public talks.  We facilitate meetings among artists, critics and curators. Through these means we aim to foster an exchange between a growing network of local and national artistic communities, which we believe is one of the best ways to support the careers of emerging artists. Located within a 100-year-old hosiery mill in South Nashville, Seed SPACE is supported by NCAP, the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, and is made possible with grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission.

November 23-January 30th: We are pleased to present “Nashville on Channel TWo” by Jessica Westbrook, Adam Trowbridge and Benjamin Thorp. Our hours are M and W, 10-2 pm and by appointment. We will be closed December 19-January 3 for the holidays.

In the meantime, check out our exciting new CSArt Nashville Program where you can Invest in your Creative Community and get a Crate of Work from Nashville’s Top Artists!

Many more updates to come… till then, please visit our old site for past and upcoming Seed SPACE shows, exhibit information, etc.

Consider contributing and watch Seed SPACE grow!!

Seed Supporter   $25

Blossom             $50

Crop Cultivator     $100

Harvest Producer $1000

Become a shareholder in

Seed SPACE’s Community Supported Art Program!

Buy original work produced by a selection of

Nashville’s Top Artists.

Levels 

1/2 share- $250
Receives 1 crate that includes –5 artworks from 5 artists

Full share-$500
Receives 2 crates that  include – 5 artworks from 5 artists
(Total of 10 artworks from all 10 artists)

Artworks include: Sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography

Selected artists:  Vesna Pavlović ,  Derek Coté, Herb Williams , Lesley Patterson-Marx , Emily Leonard, Sher Fick, Mike Calway-Fagen, Jodi Hays , Nicole Baumann, Ryan Hogan

  BUY NOW!  Just 3 full shares left

More about CSArt Nashville..

Community-Supported Art Nashville is a yearly art subscription service of locally produced art. Much like Community Supported Agriculture, in which shareholders invest in a local farm and receive a monthly payout of fruits and vegetables, CSA Nashville asks shareholders to invest directly in the arts community with a “buy local” mentality. The program offers a reasonably priced way to support Nashville and regional artists and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return.

Ranging from emerging to mid-career, participating artists have exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally,  from the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, The White House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Banff Center in Alberta Canada, Boston Center for the Arts, Seed Space and Zeitgeist Gallery.

CSArt Nashville is an opportunity for collectors to access exclusive editions of their work at an affordable price. Seed SPACE is excited to become part of a national movement to create sustainable models to fund local artists and contemporary art affordable and accessible, drawing inspiration from Community-Supported Art program of Springboard for the Arts in Minneapolis, MN, Alula Editions, Threewalls Chicago, The Present Group and The Thing Quarterly in California and the Risograph CSA Project in Grand Rapids, MI.

FAQ

Q: How do I know which 5 artists are going to be in my share? 
A: You don’t! The idea is similar to Community Supported Agriculture in that when you purchase a farm share, you don’t know exactly what is going to come in your produce box until you pick it up.  Keep in mind that we have hand picked the artists and think they are all great!

Q: How can I get a share that has something from all 10 artists?
A: If you purchase a full share ($500), you will receive a work from all 10 artists.

Q: When is the deadline for purchasing shares?
A: By February 10th, 2012 to fully enjoy the privilege of the pick up party

Q: Do you offer any kind of payment plan?
A: Yes! Contact us and we can work something out.

Q: Will my share be the same as everyone elses?

A: No! The majority of the works are limited editions with unique variations or completely original

More about our selected artists…

Vesna Pavlović (Belgrade, Serbia) obtained her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University where she teaches photography and digital media. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt, Austria, Photographers’ Gallery in London, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerke, France. Most recently, her work has been included in the artists’ section of the “Reframing Photography” publication (Routledge, UK, fall 2010), and Photobiennale 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Pavlović is the recipient of Robert Penn Warren Fellowship at Vanderbilt University and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation grant and artist residency in Taos, NM in 2011. Her work is represented by G Fine Art Gallery in Washington DC.

Herb Williams received a BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. Williams has received The Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum Purchase Grant in 2004, the Next Star Artist Award in 2008, and was sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. One of the only individuals in the world with an account with Crayola, Williams creates original sculptures out of individual crayons that may require as many as hundreds of thousands. His work holds records with Ripley’s and Guinness.  His sculptures have been placed in public arenas, such as children’s hospitals, corporate lobbies, museum walls, and the White House. His work was featured recently at an Inaugural art exhibit in Washington, DC, with Shepard Fairey, and he opened “Plunderland”, a walk-in room installation consisting of almost 500,000 crayons at an art gallery in Chelsea. Herb is currently represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, TN.

As a former explorer, frustrated architect, and aspiring social examiner, Derek Coté studied at Western Washington University, and Virginia Commonwealth University where he received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media. Coté has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Houston Center for Photography, Exit Art, AC Institute, and Roebling Hall in New York City, Marmara University in Istanbul, Marc DePuechredon Gallery in Basel, and Artwave Radio in Athens, Greece. In addition, Derek was included in the 2007 Young Sculptors Competition, received a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Support Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. In 2012 Derek will be attending The Arctic Circle, an artist and scientist-led research expedition to the high arctic.

Mike Calway-Fagen has shown across the country and abroad in venues such as Gazelli Art in London, the southXeast Biennial in Florida, QED Gallery in Los Angeles, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Islip Art Museum in New York, Banff Center in Alberta Canada, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sculpture Space, and others. In 2008 he received Tennessee’s Individual Artist Grant. He received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2006 and is currently finishing up his MFA at the University of California in San Diego.

Jodi Hays is an artist who makes work over several media that is informed by both the physical and the psychological landscapes in which we live. She studied Foundations at School of Visual Arts and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Art with a BFA in Drawing. She pursued studio and curatorial projects in Boston where she lived, then earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art.  She has been a resident at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Vermont Studio Center.  She has exhibited her work at venues including the Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, TN) and Boston Center for the Arts.  Public collections include the J. Crew Company, National Parks of America and Gordon College (Wenham, MA).  Publications include Studio Visit Magazine (Open Studio Press, Boston, MA) and her work can be viewed through Gallery ELL (Brooklyn) and The Drawing Center (NYC).

Ryan Hogan is a native of Southeast Missouri and graduated with honors from Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee with a BA in art and philosophy.  Hogan is a former artist-in-residence at Gallery F at the Scarritt-Bennett center (Nashville, TN) and has an upcoming show at Dittmar Gallery at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).  His work has been featured at Seed SPACE, Twist Gallery, the Renaissance Center (Dickson, TN), Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY), and Gallery F. His work has been reviewed in the Nashville Scene and the underground art publication The Rabbit.  Hogan has recently received a critic’s mention as the Nashville Scene’s 2011 best artist to watch.

Emily Leonard’s paintings are included in numerous private and public collections around the world, including those of the Tennessee State Museum, Swedish Hospital in Seattle, the UBS offices in Nashville, Martha Ingram, Nathan Followill of the Kings of Leon and Taylor York of Paramore.  Leonard’s painting I woke up and loved you is featured in the book Speak for the Trees, alongside such artists as David Hockney, Christo and Jean Claude, The Starn Brothers and Mark Ryden.  Leonard is represented by Davidson Galleries (Seattle WA), The Rymer Gallery (Nashville TN), Blue Spiral 1 (Asheville NC) and Anne Reed Gallery (Sun Valley ID).

Sher Fick holds a BFA Painting/Sculpture from Middle Tennessee State University and has studied at the Santa Fe College of Art and The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. While living in the Florida Panhandle, Fick was nominated for the Cox/Bravo Channel’s Champion for the Arts Award. She has received several grants from The Tennessee Arts Commission and recently exhibited at The Pool Art Fair in Miami, FL.  Fick works from her rural home studio, teaches privately and is currently working on her book “Coping Skills – The Art and Inspiration of Sher Fick”; her artwork is included in several published books and as cover art. Her work has been chosen for regional exhibitions/biennials to represent the State of Tennessee. Upcoming exhibitions include works from “bitter + SWEET, A Way With Words,” a multi-work installation of encaustic/mixed media vignettes.

Lesley Patterson-Marx received a B.A. degree in Fine Art from Murray College and a Masters of Fine Arts from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Upon graduation in 2001, she was invited by Judy Chicago to work on “At Home, A Kentucky Project,” in Bowling Green Ky. Since moving to Nashville, she has worked as a full time art instructor and gallery director at Watkins College and helped found Plate Tone Printshop, a non-toxic, fine art community printshop. Her work has been featured in several publications, including Readymade Magazine and New American Paintings MFA Annual. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries including Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison, WI and Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York City. She is represented by Tag Gallery in Nashville, TN. She currently teaches book arts and printmaking to high school students at the University School of Nashville.

Nicole Baumann is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned both her BFA and MFA in Crafts and Material Studies. She has exhibited nationally including exhibitions at Zone Gallery in New York City, SPACES in Cleveland, OH, Lancaster Museum of Art, Wichita Center for the Arts, Marble House Cultural Arts Center in Mableton, GA, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, 1708 Gallery and Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN. Baumann is also is a recipient of a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well awards from the Surface Design Association and the International Sculpture Center.

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March 17th-April 30th: Breech by Ryder Richards

“Violent death [is] the soul of all romance.” ~ William James, 1906

A “breach” is a rupture while a “breech” is the port into which ammunition is fed into weapons. As both entry and exit, “breach” and “breech” form a relationship of acceptance and violent expulsion, and violence is often a survival strategy allowing for continuation of the species or ideas. Considering the gallery as an entrance and exit of ideas, it has been developed as a purposeful void, a vacuum, displaying its cultural power through vacancy. Dedicated survival the gallery, under duress of its very existence, must be filled, and as such the space is fertile for creation. Enacting this meme –the gallery’s need for survival— Breech personifies the space by allowing architectural elements to rupture the walls in efforts to reproduce. Inherently violent, this act of creation also contains an element of seduction referenced in the exhibit by organic patterning derived from the decorative breech of a Winchester rifle.

 

 

May 4: One night performance by MSTU’s Gizmology Club

MTSU Gizmology Club will have a one night exhibition at Seed Space involving interactive works focusing on the theme of collector/collected. Each work will be created, altered, or destroyed by its interaction with the viewer in some way. Works include circuit bending, motion controls, recording devices, complex motor controls, or any number of other methods to create a record of interaction with the viewer.

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